Today the Senate Judiciary Committee of the State of Tennessee approved four bills introduced by Senator Doug Jackson which will go a long way to protecting children and others from dog attacks. I testifed before the committee with regard to these bills. In addition to my legal analysis, the committee heard emotional, true-life accounts of […]
In a report published in this week’s influential British Medical Journal (BMJ), pediatricians said parents bringing a dog into the family home should also undertake mandatory classes to teach them the “responsibilities of dog ownership” while children must attend education programs designed to instill “precautionary behavior” around dogs. (To read the article, click here.) These […]
On February 27, 2006, I will testify before the Judiciary Committee of the Tennessee State Senate, on the subject of dog bite law. Senator Doug Jackson has introduced 5 bills that will go a long way to reducing dog attacks. I will be discussing these bills and the the more general subject of preventing dog […]
Today the California Supreme Court heard arguments in the Diane Whipple case. This is the lady who was killed in San Francisco by dogs that were owned by Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, two of the most irreponsible dog owners in the USA. A jury found Knoller guilty of murder but the trial judge threw […]
In November, two pit bulls bit a man 150 times. (See the post, below.) Also in November, pit bulls took a sleeping child from his bed and killed him in the kitchen. (See Dangerous and Vicious Dogs.) A month ago, a pit bull chewed off a baby’s toes. (See the post, below.) This month, a pit […]
In Richmond, VA, 6-year-old Matthew Logan Johnson was mauled to death on January 24, 2007, by two of seven Rottweilers owned by his parents. The dogs that killed the boy were newly adopted only days before. In Brewton, Alabama, on January 29, 2007, 18-month-old Taylor Kitlica was killed on her front lawn by a Rottweiler […]